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04-19-07 | 09:12 PM
#176
Slogging along
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Originally Posted by Digital Gee
How m any models of this car can you name?
04-19-07 | 10:02 PM
#178
^^ + Bermuda and Roundup. Both also wagons
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It's all downhill from here. Except the parts that are uphill.
It's all downhill from here. Except the parts that are uphill.
04-20-07 | 07:22 AM
#180
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I need more cowbell.
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Originally Posted by WillisB
Will this never end?
How much more can we take?
How much more can we take?
It just goes on, and on, my friend.
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04-20-07 | 11:06 AM
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I need more cowbell.
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04-20-07 | 03:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Thrifty1
MAC's safest (lowest # of accidents per miles flown & tonnage carried)
1950 to 1974 wasn't a bad run for a shakey old plane.
04-20-07 | 05:42 PM
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Originally Posted by WalterMitty
...and could not be replaced in active service until the introduction of the C5-A because the C130 (1956) and C 141 (1964) weren't big enough internally.
1950 to 1974 wasn't a bad run for a shakey old plane.
1950 to 1974 wasn't a bad run for a shakey old plane.
It ate magnetos like candy....very noisy.....but got us there and.....more importantly....back. They were unique....
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04-20-07 | 06:00 PM
#192
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Okay, how many of you had one of these???
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04-20-07 | 06:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Thrifty1
Our C-124B (not in photo) was an airborn/mobile comm center......plenty of room for Large comm equip of the early 60s and to haul our K-55 comm vans with us. Extremely slow.....we would lift our feet to keep them from getting wet when taking off on MacDill runway. It ate magnetos like candy....very noisy.....but got us there and.....more importantly....back. They were unique....
It ate magnetos like candy....very noisy.....but got us there and.....more importantly....back. They were unique....I wouldn't want to go back mind you, but as a young A&P student it was a thrill to go out with Dad to Tinker and be around the big planes.
The Thuds that came to the unit later were sexier of course, but that was a different world altogether.
04-20-07 | 06:15 PM
#194
Originally Posted by Digital Gee
Okay, how many of you had one of these???
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04-20-07 | 06:29 PM
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Originally Posted by WalterMitty
Nothing quite like the sound of four R4360's coming to life. Sounded like you were going to go somewhere. Modern Turboprops are kind of... anticlimatic.
I wouldn't want to go back mind you, but as a young A&P student it was a thrill to go out with Dad to Tinker and be around the big planes.
The Thuds that came to the unit later were sexier of course, but that was a different world altogether.
I wouldn't want to go back mind you, but as a young A&P student it was a thrill to go out with Dad to Tinker and be around the big planes.
The Thuds that came to the unit later were sexier of course, but that was a different world altogether.
04-21-07 | 09:12 AM
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Which did you like better?
This?
Or this???
This?
Or this???
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04-21-07 | 09:44 AM
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More in line with the title of the thread... "round and round she goes and where she stops, nobody knows" ...
hope someone remembers what that was from cause I can not... .... .. . . ... .. . ... peace
hope someone remembers what that was from cause I can not... .... .. . . ... .. . ... peace
04-21-07 | 09:57 AM
#199
Do I use too many commas?
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Originally Posted by Floyd
More in line with the title of the thread... "round and round she goes and where she stops, nobody knows" ...
hope someone remembers what that was from cause I can not... .... .. . . ... .. . ... peace
hope someone remembers what that was from cause I can not... .... .. . . ... .. . ... peace
They had drawings on a regular basis. That was the signal to mix up the letters in the drum.
04-21-07 | 10:10 AM
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From: The Alta Loma area of Rancho Cucamonga. About 45 miles east of Los Angeles, California. Uphill, downhill and across hill riding; not too level!
I always loved Lincoln Logs, but I never had enough of them to build my dream-log cabin. I always needed more. . .